| | Push | 1 | Missed too many school days | 43.5 | 44.1 | 42.7 |
Pull | 2 | Thought it would be easier to get GED | 40.5 | 41.5 | 39.1 |
Push | 3 | Was getting poor grades/failing school | 38.0 | 40.1 | 35.2 |
Fall | 4 | Did not like school | 36.6 | 40.1 | 32.0 |
Push | 5 | Could not keep up with schoolwork | 32.1 | 29.7 | 35.3 |
Push | 8 | Thought could not complete course requirements | 25.6 | 22.9 | 39.0 |
Push | 9 | Could not get along with teachers | 25.0 | 27.7 | 21.6 |
Fall | 12 | Did not feel belonged there | 19.9 | 19.9 | 19.9 |
Push | 13 | Could not get along with others | 18.7 | 17.7 | 20.1 |
Push | 14 | Was suspended | 16.9 | 22.9 | 9.0 |
Fall | 17 | Changed schools and did not like new one | 11.2 | 14.5 | 7.0 |
Push | 18 | Thought would fail competency test | 10.5 | 9.0 | 12.3 |
Push | 19 | Did not feel safe | 10.0 | 10.5 | 9.5 |
Push | 20 | Was expelled | 9.9 | 15.2 | 3.0! |
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Pull | 6 | Was Pregnant | 27.8 | — | 27.8 |
Pull | 11 | Had to support family | 20.0 | 17.6 | 23.0 |
Pull | 15 | To care for a member of the family | 15.5 | 15.2 | 16.0 |
Pull | 16 | Became a father/mother of a baby | 14.4 | 6.2 | 25.0 |
Pull | 21 | Married or planned to get married | 6.8 | 3.0 | 11.6 |
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Pull | 7 | Got a job | 27.8 | 33.5 | 20.3 |
Pull | 10 | Could not work at same time | 21.7 | 23.1 | 19.9 |
| | | 663 | 375 | 288 |
Source. Dalton, Glennie, Ingels, and Wirt (2009, p.22); Dropout Indicator 29. |
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What do we know about intervention and prevention? On January 13, 2001, CRP held its first conference on high school dropouts and reform policies to tackle this problem. Co-sponsored with Achieve Inc., it gathered more than 17 experts in the subject and produced 14 commissioned papers. This page summarizes the working papers presented at the conference. The following papers were presented during the conference held on January 13, 2001, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-sponsored with . " "
by Nettie Legters and Kerri Kerr, Johns Hopkins University This study investigates the types and effects of practices aimed at promoting ninth grade success. The current high school reform movement has drawn attention to reform practices that schools might use to ease ninth graders' transition into high school (Newmann and Wehlage, 1995), but little is known about the character, extent of use, and impact on student outcomes of these reforms. The authors administered a survey to all 175 Maryland high schools in spring 2000, with an 80% response rate, providing data on the kinds of transitional practices and programs the state's high schools are currently using with their ninth graders. The data will be used to create a descriptive typology of school practices and interventions aimed at ninth graders that includes frequency of use across schools, the number of years practices have been in place and the percentage of ninth graders affected by practices. State-level data will then enable the authors to assess the relationship between the various reform practices and student attendance, promotion, dropout rates, and achievement, controlling for school context variables such as size, percent minority and average student SES. Qualitative data in the form of site visits and interviews to be collected in fall 2000 will supplement these analyses with richer information about how practices for ninth graders are being implemented at selected sites. " " by Robert Balfanz and Nettie Legters, Johns Hopkins University
While it is generally assumed that the high dropout rates in urban districts are at least in part due to low performing high schools, little is known about how many of these failing schools there are, where they are located, and who attends them. This paper uses the National Center for Education Statistics' Common Core of Data to develop a demographic portrait of low-performing public high schools in the 35 largest central cities in the U.S. Using the indicator of "holding power," or the proportion of students retained between the 9th and 12th grades, the authors estimate the number of central city high schools with high drop out rates, examined their distribution and demographics, and identify specific districts where the problem is most acute. The initial findings reveal that for recent cohorts analyzed (i.e. 1989-1993 and 1992-1996), about half of the sampled central city high schools have a holding power of 50% or less. This suggests the urban dropout problem is concentrated in between 200 to 300 schools. The data also shows that there is considerable variation across the 35 largest central cities in the number and percent of high schools with weak holding power. " " by Walter Haney, Boston College This paper examines the effect that the full implementation of the TAAS system (i.e., passing a test for high school graduation) has had on the grade transition ratios in Texas. Because the Texas Education Agency's definition of what counted as a dropout has changed several times over the past decade, Haney examines the possible effects of the TAAS on grade enrollment patterns and high school completion. The analysis reveals that one of the effects the implementation of the TAAS system (phased in from 1990-91 to 1992-93) has been a dramatic decrease in the progress of Black and Hispanic students from grade 9 to high school graduation three years later; from roughly 60% in the 1970's to 50% since 1992-93 (Haney, 2000). Further, he finds that since 1992, Black and Hispanic students' progress from grade 9 through high school graduation is being stymied in grade 9 before they take the test. The paper gives special attention to students' overagedness in Texas high schools and the increase in retention in ninth grade. " " by Martin Carnoy, Susanna Loeb, and Tiffany L. Smith, School of Education, Stanford University
This paper uses information at both state and school level to look at the educational progression of students in Texas. Looking at trends over time, starting in the early 1980's, the authors look at trends over time to estimate the potential impact of the 1984 reform and the high stakes testing that was implemented in 1990-91. While the authors do not find evidence that testing increased dropout or retention rates, they do identify a striking propensity to retain students, especially low-income and minority students, in the 9th grade, which increased substantially following the 1984 reform.
Rising pass rates on the TAAS, the test administered to students and the primary measure of school success, suggest that Texas's goal of improving educational outcomes is being met. Nevertheless, Carnoy et al. show that high school graduation rates for 8th, 9th, and 10th graders rose at best slightly in the 1990's, and then only in the past few years. This is troubling because school graduation rates in Texas are relatively low in Texas, particularly among minority groups. The results suggest that the state accountability system based on TAAS scores may have had positive effects on high school outcomes in the 1990's if the "official" dropout rate is a "good" measure of the probability of high school completion. " " by Jacqueline Ancess and Suzanna Wichterle Ort, National Center for Restructuring Education, Schools, & Teaching
This paper presents evidence from an eight-year longitudinal study of a reform initiative known as the Coalition Campus Schools Project (CCSP). CCSP was a collaboration of the New York City Board of Education, the United Federation of Teachers, and a consortium of foundations, whose primary purpose was to establish a model for the reform of large failing urban secondary schools. In many instances, the CCSP attempted to replace large schools with smaller, autonomous schools organized for teachers to know students well and provide them with an education focused on intellectual development. The paper addresses the research question: What organizational and pedagogical practices affect student outcomes, in particular graduation and dropout rates? Relying on a review of interviews, classroom observations, and official Board reports, the authors argue that students' school success is positively related to small school and class size, as well as factors like a performance-based assessment system and the organization of school structure, curriculum, instruction, assessment, and professional development. " " by Ruth Curran Neild, Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., University of Pennsylvania; and Scott Stoner-Eby, University of North Carolina
Much of the literature on school dropout implies a randomness to the timing of when leaving school becomes more appealing than staying. In this paper, we examine how one crisis point in urban students’ educational careers – the transition to high school – affects the likelihood of dropping out. We find that despite an extensive set of pre-high school controls for family, achievement, aspirations, school engagement, and peer relationships, ninth grade outcomes add substantially to our ability to predict dropout. The importance of the ninth grade year suggests that reducing the enormous dropout rates in large cities will require attention to the transition to high school. " " by Russell Rumberger, University of California, Santa Barbara
This paper examines why students drop out of school and what can be done about it. After briefly summarizing who drops out of school, the paper reviews the theoretical and empirical research that attempts to explain why students drop out of school based on two different conceptual frameworks that are both useful and necessary to understand this complex phenomenon. One framework is based on an individual perspective that focuses on individual factors associated with dropping out; the other is based on an institutional perspective that focuses on the contextual factors found in students’ families, schools, communities and peers. The paper also discusses the extent to which these frameworks can be used explain differences in dropout rates among social groups, particularly racial and ethnic minorities. The next section of the paper examines various strategies to address the dropout, reviewing examples of both programmatic and systemic solutions, and the extent to which policy can promote them. The final section of the paper discusses whether the United States has the capacity and the will to reduce dropout rates and eliminate disparities in dropout rates among racial and ethnic groups. " " by James E. Rosenbaum and Stefanie DeLuca, Northwestern University
This paper examines the ways in which students' feeling unsafe or isolated in their school environment may affect their school behaviors and their decisions to remain in school. Further, it examines how teachers respond to students experiencing these threats. The authors use the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) data, a national survey which follows students from eighth grade to six years later, so it allows a good national sample for studying the incidence of dropouts and a long period to examine its antecedents.
The authors present evidence that a lack of safety is strongly related to dropping out and withdrawal behaviors. Students who feel unsafe and threatened are more likely to cut classes, and drop out of school, even after controls for SES, test scores, track placement and grades. They also find that the disparagement of teachers is strongly related to safety concerns, threats, and dropouts, and that it mediates teachers' influence on further dropouts. Rosenbaum's and DeLuca's analyses suggest that students are more likely to feel unsafe and to get threats of physical harm if they do not fit in, lack friends, and are put down by students. These safety concerns, and the informal peer relations, affect student school withdrawal behaviors, and dropouts. In some cases, they conclude, perceived teacher disparagement may have stronger relationships with dropping out than do peer influences, which they propose to investigate further. " " by Robert Hauser, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
This paper presents an up-to-date demographic profile on dropout trends between 1972 and 1998, examining variables by race-ethnicity, socioeconomic status, geographic location (region and metropolitan), age, sex, and grade in school. The author expands on previous demographic work on high school dropouts by adding parent's characteristics of children's school enrollment and completion.
The author examines grade-specific dropout data from the Current Population Survey and relates it to household characteristics. Hauser's preliminary findings suggest large socioeconomic and geographic effects on dropout, which more than account for the observed race-ethnic differentials in the period from 1973 to 1989. Based on these findings, Hauser analyzes what may happen in the future under high-stakes testing regimes. " " by James McPartland and Will Jordan, Center for the Social Organization of Schooling, Johns Hopkins University
While current research indicates that a variety of different interventions may be used to reduce dropout rates, relatively little is known about models for changing entire high schools with adequate support services. Based on his team's work in Baltimore and Philadelphia, and selected other urban districts, McPartland describes both the base of knowledge and the problems in practice of changing an entire high school geared toward dropout prevention. He considers the range of interventions he and his team have implemented through the Talent Development Model. These fall into three broad categories: organizational factors, instructional factors (e.g. 9th grade curricula, common core curricula), and professional development. McPartland evaluates how well the various interventions have worked and how an entire organization would need to change to support these interventions. He also outlines what the barriers have been to developing and disseminating a model for high school change, and what kinds of policy support at local, state, and federal levels would help. " " by Valerie Lee and David Burkam, University of Michigan
This paper uses the High School Effectiveness Supplement to the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS) to investigate dropping out between 10 and 12th grade. What is the relationship between dropping out as an outcome and variables such as school structure, school organization, and students' social and economic background ("social capital")? The sample includes a nationally representative sample of U.S. high schools in urban and suburban areas, both public and private (Catholic and elite private). In addition to student background variables, the authors analyze the relationship between dropout rates and students' school performance (grades) and the courses they take. " " by Mark Dynarski, Mathematica Policy Research Associates
This work presents major findings from a federally funded evaluation of the second phase of the U.S. Department of Education's School Dropout Demonstration Assistance Program (SDDAP). The evaluation considered how dropout-prevention programs operated, how programs used their funds, what kinds of students attended the programs, and whether programs improved student outcomes. More than 20 programs and 10,000 students were part of the evaluation.
The key finding from the evaluation is that most programs made almost no difference in preventing dropping out in general. Programs may have had great success in turning around the lives of some students, but in most programs, program experiences did not have much of an effect on students. This confirms earlier work indicating that it is extremely difficult to identify risk factors (i.e., students who have been thought to have some "risk factors" often persist, while students who showed none often dropped out.) Drawing on examples from the various sites, the author argues that ongoing, school-based personalized attention from adults that may conceivably make more of a difference than broad intervention programs. " " James Kemple, Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
This paper summarizes findings from MDRC's ongoing Career Academies evaluation, and addresses the questions: To what extent does the Career Academy approach change educational, employment, and youth development outcomes for high school students at greater or lesser risk of school failure?How do the manner and context in which Career Academy programs are implemented influence their effects on student outcomes?
The Career Academy approach is one of the oldest and most widely established high school restructuring and school-to-work transition reforms in the United States. Career Academies have existed for more than 30 years and have been implemented in more than 1,500 high schools across the country. The durability and broad appeal of the Academy approach can be attributed, in part, to the fact that its core features offer direct responses to a number of problems that have been identified in large comprehensive high schools. Career Academies attempt to create more supportive and personalized learning environments through a school-within-a-school structure. There has been a great deal of research on the Academy approach. Nevertheless, previous studies have been unable to determine reliably whether differences between Academy students' high school experiences and outcomes and those of other students result from the Academy itself or from the program's student targeting or its selection practices.
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Dropping out of high school has serious long-term consequences not only for individuals but also for society. According to expert estimates, between 3.5 million and 6 million young Americans between the ages of 16 and 24 are school dropouts. Lowering the number of adolescents who fail to finish high school and helping those who drop out get back on track must be a major policy goal for our nation. In this policy brief we focus primarily on how best to provide youngsters who have dropped out of school a second chance, though we also give some attention to dropout prevention (we do not tackle the topic of high school reform more broadly). Several carefully evaluated program models hold out promise that they can help both young people at risk of dropping out and those who do drop out. These promising programs must be expanded and continually improved, and we offer specific proposals for doing so. U.S. policy must aim to keep as many young Americans as possible in high school until they graduate and to reconnect as many as possible of those who drop out despite educators’ best efforts to keep them in school.
Just how costly is school dropout? Americans who do not graduate from high school pay a heavy price personally. Although correlation is not causation, the links between leaving school before graduating and having poor life outcomes are striking. Perhaps the most important correlation is that between dropping out and low income. Based on Census Bureau data (from 1965 to 2005), figure 1 compares the median family income of adults who dropped out of high school with that of adults who completed various levels of education. Two points are notable. First, in 2005, school dropouts earned $15,700 less than adults with a high school degree and well over $35,000 less than those with a two-year degree. Over a forty-five-year career the earnings difference between a dropout and someone with only a high school degree can amount to more than $700,000. Considered from a broader social perspective, the income-education pattern illustrated by figure 1 shows that school dropouts contribute substantially to the problem of income inequality that is now a growing concern of researchers and policy makers.
Dropping out of school is also linked with many other negative outcomes such as increased chances of unemployment or completely dropping out of the workforce, lower rates of marriage, increased incidence of divorce and births outside marriage, increased involvement with the welfare and legal systems, and even poor health. All these outcomes are costly not only to dropouts personally, but also to society. Prison costs, for example, are among the most rapidly growing items in nearly every state budget, and more than two-thirds of state prison inmates are school dropouts, though many obtain a General Educational Development (GED) credential while in prison. Similarly, in 2006, 67 percent of all births to young dropouts were outside marriage, compared with 10 percent of births for women with a master’s degree. Because families with children born outside marriage are five or six times more likely to live in poverty than married-couple families, it follows that they are also more likely to be on welfare. In both these examples, dropping out is linked with social problems that impose large public costs on the nation.
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This study attempts to answer the following research question: What are the factors that prevent students from completing high school? The participants in this study included 228 current and recent students from General Educational Development (GED) programs across the state of Texas. In an effort to gain a clearer picture of circumstances faced by current high school students, only responses from participants in their teens or twenties were considered for the research concerning dropout factors. There were 158 respondents in this category. Data for this qualitative study were collected by means of surveys containing open-ended questions, focus groups, and semi-structured interviews. The significant findings of this study are as follows: (1) More than a quarter of the 158 participants in this study reported that pregnancy and parenting prevented them from graduating high school; (2) More than one-sixth reported that conflicts with school personnel as well as overall school dysfuncti...
Rodi Satriawan
Todd Fennimore
Youth & Society
Elizabeth Stearns
National Center for Education Statistics
Elizabeth Glennie
This report presents information about selected characteristics and experiences of high school sophomores in 2002 who subsequently dropped out of school. It also presents comparative data about late high school dropouts in the years 1982, 1992, and 2004. Three data sources ...
Dean Ramser, Ed.D.
Where and when does progress begin with our high school dropout problem? Is it simply bringing new technology to the class room as Morrell (2009) and Mahiri (2011) suggest? Is it tracking and detecting the potential dropout, and implementing intervention strategies as Heppen & Bowles (2008) suggest? If the ERO (20100 study was correct, and if 0.09% improvement is what can be hoped through Enhanced Reading Opportunities, what can be done with greater improvement? The Governor’s Report (2010) suggest that high school dropout behavior is predictable, why isn’t an intervention program in place now? Berliner (2008) saw an increase in high school graduation from those who reenrolled, so is that the strategy? Push to reenroll? Princotta & Harris (2009) suggest extended hours and extended days. Will that work, and if so, why is it not in place now? Hammond (2009) looks at teacher training institutions as the solution, yet it leans on Apple’s (2002; 2009; 2010) contention that the social structure of a hegemonic society is the obstacle to open discussions. Deli-Amen (2011) and Durkheim (1951) emphasize academic integration and social integration as effective models at addressing the achievement gap, and so does Rumberger (2011). As salient as it may be, the fissure of perceived inequality based on racial differences, will not be resolved through hierarchical mediation. That strategy reinforces the Hammond model of employing teaching graduates from the privileged institutions, and thereby purveyors of the pedagogical ideology of those institutions, which may not reflect the student population, like that of Paulo Freire’s conscientização. If the objective of learning is to develop higher level critical thinking skills (Dewey), then focusing on achieving an in-depth understanding of the world, allowing for the perception and exposure of perceived social and political contradictions, including the inequalities in the social stratification of ethnicities in our schools, will naturally lead to a form of critical consciousness that necessitates taking action against the oppressive elements in one's life that are illuminated by that understanding. The solution may rest in the uncharted territory of historical consciousness of the collective achievement gap carved out of our humanity, with a bit of 21st century technology to articulate the lighted path in the abyss between those two eternities of darkness.
Kate Sirota
Cynthia Kelly
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The first nationally representative study to address reasons for high school dropout was the EEO study of 1955. It was a private study of 35,472 high school sophomores and seniors conducted by Educational Testing Services from a National Science Foundation grant (Eckland, 1972; Griffin & Alexander, 1978). It included 35,472 high school ...
Question. 6 answers. Sep 7, 2022. Research studies conducted by us and other colleagues shows that between 20% and 35% of students drop out of college after the first and second year of their ...
Almost one-third of all public secondary students in the United States each year dropout of school (Snyder & Dillow, 2010; Stillwell, 2010).Dropout rates vary across groups and settings, with Hispanic (36.5%) and African American (38.5%) students dropping out at higher rates than Asian (8.6%) and White (19%) students (Stillwell, 2010).High rates of dropout affect individuals, families, and ...
Such questions are of particular interest to us as scientists at ETS's Research and Development division and its Center for Academic and Workforce Readiness and Success. To address the high school dropout problem, educational institutions must identify early on which students are likely to drop out. We are exploring the possibility of working
• The status dropout rate is the percentage of 16- to 24-year-olds who are not enrolled in school and have not earned a high school credential. In 2017, the ACS status dropout rate for all 16- to 24-year-olds was 5.4 percent (figure 2.1 and table 2.1). • Based on data from ACS, the 2013-2017 5-year-average status dropout rate2 for Hispanic 1
1 Background and Context. F ailure to complete high school has been recognized as a social problem in the United States for decades and, as discussed below, the individual and social costs of dropping out are considerable. Social scientists, policy makers, journalists, and the public have pondered questions about why students drop out, how many drop out, what happens to dropouts, and how young ...
study reviewed the past 25 years of research on dropouts. The review is based on 203 published studies that analyzed a variety of national, state, and local data to identify statistically significant predictors of high school dropout and graduation. Although in any particular study it is difficult
The National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) exists to support those who work to improve student success and graduation rates. NDPC offers a wide range of resources and services to schools, districts, regional agencies, and states. Contact NDPC by (email: [email protected] or phone: (864-642-6372.).
Department of Education's High School Dropout and Completion Rates 2007 Compendium Report published in 2009, it was reported that socioeconomic factors significantly impacted student failure in American public high schools , "In 2007, the event dropout rate of students
The problem of high school dropouts has generated increased interest among researchers, policymakers, and educators in recent years. This paper examines the many issues involved in trying to understand and solve this complex social and educational problem. The issues are grouped into four areas covering the incidence, causes, consequences, and ...
Brooks, Cristina Grace, "A Study of How Former High School Dropouts View the Reasons They Dropped Out and Why They Returned" (2015). Electronic Theses, Projects, and Dissertations. 201. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/201. This Project is brought to you for free and open access by the Ofice of Graduate Studies at CSUSB ScholarWorks.
The fact that so many students never complete high school has a deep and wide-ranging impact on the U.S.'s long-term economic outlook. The U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) (2011) reports that the median income of persons ages 18 through 67 who had not completed high school was roughly $25,000 in 2009.
The problem of high school dropouts has generated increased interest among researchers, policymakers, and educators in recent years. This paper examines the many issues involved in trying to understand and solve this complex social and educational problem. The issues are grouped into four areas covering the incidence, causes, consequences, and solutions to the problem. Within each area, the ...
Research on school dropout extends from early 20th-century pioneers until now, marking trends of causes and prevention. ... = 18.4 (1.23) years, 63.6% male, based on questions following a chronological life course from elementary to high school. Using qualitative content analysis and cluster analysis, we yielded a typology of high school ...
Preventing Dropout in Secondary Schools. This practice guide provides school educators and administrators with four evidence-based recommendations for reducing dropout rates in middle and high schools and improving high school graduation rates. Each recommendation provides specific, actionable strategies; examples of how to implement the ...
for high school dropout was the EEO study of 1955. It was a private study of 35,472 high school sophomores and seniors conducted by Educational Testing Services from a National Science Foundation grant (Eckland, 1972; Griffin & Alexander, 1978). It included 35,472 high school sopho-mores and the dropout causes they had reported. In 1970, a
Every year, 1.2 million high school students in the USA drop out of high school. That's 7,000 students a day. Here are the main reasons why you must use this free survey template. 1. Explore the core reasons for dropout: Use this survey to get close to students and understand their plight and the main reasons why they drop out of school. 2.
IMPORTANT: These research papers are not final versions; please do not quote or cite without the permission of the The Civil Rights Project. The following papers were presented during the conference Dropouts in America held on January 13, 2001, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and co-sponsored with Achieve, Inc. "Easing the Transition to High School: An Investigation of Reform Practices to Promote ...
Two points are notable. First, in 2005, school dropouts earned $15,700 less than adults with a high school degree and well over $35,000 less than those with a two-year degree. Over a forty-five ...
NCES reports that on average, 3.4 percent of students who were enrolled in public or private high schools in October 2008 left school before October 2009 without completing a high school program. Broken down by race, the estimated event dropout rates were 2.4% for Whites, 4.8% for African Americans, and 5.8% for Latinos.
High school dropouts cost countries a staggering amount of money. Louis Volante, Brock University; John Jerrim, UCL, and Jo Ritzen, Maastricht University. While the purpose of education can't be ...
Appendix A. Student Interview Protocol. Proposed Date of Study: From: March 1, 2007- April 30, 2007. Project Title: Effects of a Program to Reduce the Dropout Rate among 7th -12th Grade General and Special Education Students at Alexandria High School.
Review of Educational Research Summer 1987, Vol. 57, No. 2, pp. 101-121 High School Dropouts: A Review of Issues and Evidence Russell W. Rumberger University of California, Santa Barbara The problem of high school dropouts has generated increased interest among researchers, policymakers, and educators in recent years.